Rose Jacqueline - On Violence And On Violence Against Women - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: A blazingly insightful provocative study of violence against women from the peerless feminist critic. Why has violence and especially violence against women become so much more prominent and visible across the world? To explore this question Jacqueline Rose tracks the multiple forms of today's violence historic and intimate public and private as they spread throughout our social fabric offering a new provocative account of violence in our time. From trans rights and # Me Too to the sexual harassment of migrant women from the trial of Oscar Pistorius to domestic violence in lockdown from the writing of Roxanne Gay to Hisham Mitar and Han Kang she casts her net wide. What obscene pleasure in violence do so many male leaders of the Western world unleash in their supporters? Is violence always gendered and if so always in the same way? What is required of the human mind when it grants itself permission to do violence? On Violence and On Violence Against Women is a timely and urgent agitation against injustice a challenge to radical feminism and a meaningful call to action.
Title: On Violence And On Violence Against Women
Author(s): Rose Jacqueline
Publisher: Picador
Barcode: 9781250849373
Pages: 432 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 5/17/2022
Category: Violence In Society